Just wanted to take a second to talk about my experience with water heaters. First off, I used to recommend Aqueon heaters because they had a lifetime warranty. Well turns out that's not really true. They will replace it one time. 3 years later and it failed again and they won't replace it. Shame on them! That leaves my other heater that no longer is under warranty but still works. My Yeager. I now would recommend them instead of Aqueon. Just wanted to share my experience. Happy holidays!

I just purchased an Eheim heater. Should be a wicked step up from my tetra heater. I recently purchased a new digital thermometer and discovered my water temps were dipping down to about 68-69* and getting up to temp with the lights on only. *sigh* So made the switch. The other day though I had a small scare as my water temp jumped up to 75.4 and the heater was pretty warm. I'm not sure if with the winter set in the temps dipped so low the heater finally decided to kick back on and miraculously work again or what....I'm monitoring it until my new heater comes, but boy, I think I'll be unplugging it when I leave the house and nobody is around to supervise it. No other issues...but really looking forward to the Eheim. I just hope it shows up sooner than expected. Expected deliver date isn't until December 1st.

Do you have a suggestion for a different thermometer that I should look at? My current water reading this morning was about 66 degrees and it did feel pretty cold. I'm going to use the s.o's infrared thermometer to take snap readings of the basking area and water today and see where we are. I'll look for a new thermometer today. Suggestions welcome!